Iran
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Media: Iran's Suspicious Smile By Peter Hart
There are suspicions, mostly coming from some US and Israeli officials, that the country’s enrichment activities are intended to produce a nuclear weapon. But international inspectors have never found evidence of this, and official US intelligence estimates are that Iran is not currently working on a weapons program. Continue reading
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Again: all US talk on ‘Iran’s nuclear program’ are OBVIOUS lies
As US “leaders” threaten more unlawful war on Iran, the following three points document that the ongoing “reasons” to war-murder Iranians are known lies as they are being told. In context, we know now from official US government reports that all “reasons” for war on Iraq were known to be lies as they were told: Continue reading
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Iran Foreign Minister: “We Informed US of Chemical Weapons Transfer to Syria 9 Months Ago”
In an interview with Aseman (Sky) weekly in Tehran, Zarif added, “In the same note, we warned [Washington] that radical groups might be planning to use these chemical agents. During this period [of war in Syria] Takfiri groups have been encouraged to continue their fratricide and war the result of which has been human catastrophes… Continue reading
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Former UN Israeli ambassador: “North Korea…should be wiped off the face of the map”
On 4/14/13 Former Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman told Fox News that North Korea should be wiped off the map if they persisted with their current behaviour Continue reading
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Former UN Israeli ambassador: "North Korea…should be wiped off the face of the map"
On 4/14/13 Former Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman told Fox News that North Korea should be wiped off the map if they persisted with their current behaviour Continue reading
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Obama relies on NLP to cloud minds and avoid diplomacy with Iran over its nonexistent nukes By Patrick Henningsen
For the second time in as many years, Iran has once again made the right moves towards proving to the world that it is not, and will not be pursuing a nuclear weapons program. This time it announced it’s halting its 20% enriched uranium, and has a solid partner in Russia to help make this… Continue reading
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USA Today, Maddow and Iran Misinformation: Treating nuclear claims as facts
The recent elections in Iran may change some things–but inaccurate media depictions of Iran might not change much at all. Continue reading
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Intelsat suspends satellite services to Iranian TV channels
Communications satellite services provider Intelsat has announced the suspension of its services to Iranian channels, especially the English-language news network, Press TV, as the West’s campaign against free speech intensifies Continue reading
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Video: US Iran Policy Can't Abide an Independent Middle East State
Hillary Mann-Leverett and Flynt Leverett: American policy based on hegemony in the Middle East – a major regional player not within the US system of supported states is a target Continue reading
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America’s Economic War on the People of Iran: Obama Signs Executive Order Targeting Iran’s Currency and Auto Industry By Timothy Alexander Guzman
The Obama administration’s new sanctions not only targets Iran’s government, it targets the Iranian people. It affects their everyday lives and their basic living essentials that include food and medicine. Targeting Iran’s currency adds pressure to food prices such as chicken, meat and cooking oil that already have increased to more than 60 percent in… Continue reading
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U.S. Successful With Cyber Defense Protection Racket
Based on such scaremongering the U.S. will now – generously – sell software, hardware and training to Gulf monarchies to protect from Iranian “threats” that likely do not exist at all. Those countries will have to pay hundreds of millions dollars for those “services” to “defend” against “threats” that mysteriously came up from unknown sources… Continue reading
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Proponents of ‘first strike’ nuclear war against Iran rob billions from their own citizens By Michel Chossudovsky
The Pentagon and NATO’s multibillion-dollar war budgets are financed by massive economic austerity measures, impoverishing people in the US and NATO member-states in order to build advanced nuclear weaponry justified by the ‘Iran threat.’ Continue reading
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The Iran 'Nuclear Threat' and “The Second Hostage Crisis” By Nile Bowie
From talk of “red lines” and cartoon bombs to having “all options on the table”, an undeniably delusional logic emanates from leadership in Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the alleged threat posted by Iran’s nuclear program. Continue reading
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Are Iranian Magnets the New Aluminum Tubes? By Peter Hart
In the run up to the Iraq War, the New York Times (9/8/02) famously reported on an Iraqi scheme to procure special aluminum tubes that could only have one purpose: Iraq’s secret nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein was attempting to “buy thousands of specially designed aluminum tubes,” and the “diameter, thickness and other technical specifications… Continue reading
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The Iran Nuclear Threat: Phantom Menace By Ben Schreiner
According to a report in McClatchy, “Israeli intelligence officials now estimate that Iran won’t be able to build a nuclear weapon before 2015 or 2016.” Recall that just this past September Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was theatrically warning that Iran would achieve nuclear weapons capability by “next spring, at most by next summer.” Continue reading
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Iran's 'Nuclear Weapons Program,' Again By Peter Hart
On Monday’s edition of the NewsHour (1/28/13), host Gwen Ifill referred to concerns about the “threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program,” and told viewers at the end of a Margaret Warner report that “Margaret’s next story looks at the debate in Israel over how to deal with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.” Continue reading
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Sanctions Not Really Hurting Ordinary Iranians, Says Anonymous U.S. Official By Peter Hart
We’ve talked so often about the practice of granting anonymity to U.S. officials that it’s hard to be surprised by it. Nonetheless, I was surprised to be reassured in the Washington Post (1/20/13) that the U.S.-led sanctions on Iran aren’t really harming ordinary Iranians–based on the word of an anonymous U.S. official. Continue reading
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Building a Pretext to Wage War on Iran? Washington Cooks Up a “Nuclear Fairy Tale” BY Dr. Ismail Salami
Co-authored by Mark Dubowitz, who runs Zionist-controlled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and David Albright, a physicist who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and who is responsible for concocting lies and myths about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and drawing the country into an abysmal vortex of destruction… Continue reading
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Building a Pretext to Wage War on Iran? Washington Cooks Up a “Nuclear Fairy Tale” BY Dr. Ismail Salami
Co-authored by Mark Dubowitz, who runs Zionist-controlled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and David Albright, a physicist who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and who is responsible for concocting lies and myths about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and drawing the country into an abysmal vortex of destruction… Continue reading
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